nvidia-kernel, "could not determine your kernel..."

stettler · Last edited by stettler on Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:24 am; edited 2 times in total

Hello all,

I wanted to take a look at transparent windows and sucessfully emerged xorg 6.8, transset and xcompmgr. Shadows are working, but no transpareny. So I though upgrading nvidia-kernel might be a good idea.
But ermerging nvidia fail with

madbiker · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject:

Are you sure you're using the 2.6.6 kernel? This happened to me when I was changing kernels and changed my symlink, but then forgot to recompile my kernel and reboot.

stettler · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject:

Yes, I'm sure:

Archangel1 · Veteran Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1212 Location: Work

You haven't done a make mrproper in /usr/src/linux or anything like that?
And have you tried running that make include/linux/version.h and retrying?

stettler · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject:

So far as I remember I haven't done a make mrproper (wouldn't that remove my /usr/src/linux/.config? It's there, see my first posting).

4of11 · n00b Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6

I'm having the same problem. My nvidia module stopped working after I emerged gnome 2.8 (I still don't know why that had an effect). I've been trying to install other versions of the module, but I get this message. But, if I remake my kernel, I get a different message, along the lines of "source directory dirty. Run make mrproper in /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-gentoo-r1." If I do that, I get the version error again.

During the course of installing gnome 2.8, I unmerged linux-headers due to a block and merged linux26-headers. Could that cause problems?

Did you succeed in fixing your problem? If so, how?

stettler · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

Switching from linux 2.6.6 to 2.6.8.1 solved the problem, emerging nvidia-kernel was no problem. On IRC I got an answer stating that you need at least linux 2.6.7.
Transparency is now working with 'normal' windows 'some time', xawtv with bttv module still has some bugs (black window depending on which window is focussed).

Interesting new look & feel, don't know what to think about it...

Best regards,
stettler
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stettler · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject:

To my original problem: Transparency is working with nvidia-kernel 1.0.5336-r4 (current stable version). I was simply too stupid to realize that transset brings only transparency for the next window you click...
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TheBohemian · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 33